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W. H. McNUTT.

WINDOW CAN SUPPORT.

APPLICATION mu) APR.25, 18M.

1.193,910. Patented Aug. 8,1916.

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W. H. McNUTT.

WINDOW CAN SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED A'PR.25.1914.

Patented Aug. 8,1916.

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WILLIAM H. MCNU'IT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 CARRIE EMMA OWEN, OF FRANKLIN, NEW YORK.

WINDOW CAN-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 8, 1216.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM I-I. MoNU'r'r, citizen of the United States, and resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wmdow Can-Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide means for supporting a container especially designed for holding inflammable and explosive fluids such as gasolene and the like, and particularly a pump can, at the outside of the window or other opening 1n a building side; and which container can be shifted or swung, from a position in front of the window accessible to a person within the building, to a position against the wall at one side of the window, and which supporting means will serve to lock the retainer in each of these said positions as soon as brought to such places.

A further object of the invention is to provide means for swinging the container whose actuating member is located inside of the window in the building.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating embodiments of my invention, Figure 1 illustrates portion of a wall adjacent a window, with a pump can moved back against the wall away from the window. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the can and support and adjacent portion of the wall; the latter being in section. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through the window and wall, showing the can and support in plan; and Fig. 4 is a view of the hinge plate detached.

In Fig. 1 is shown a window denoted generally by 5, set in the side wall 6 of a building. I provide a can or container 7 of a size to receive a pump can 8, that is secured therein by rivets 9 at the top; and the can 7 is provided with a hinged lid 21 that in the closed position is located a short distance above the top member 1 of the pump can 8, to provide a chamber for receiving the handle of the pump, and the outlet member of the pump can.

To support the can 7 I provide a hinge plate that is bent at its middle portion to form a kind of tube 11 with the flat portions 10 brought together adjacent the tube and the end portions 12 curved cylindrically in opposite directions from the flat portion 10, corresponding to the curvature of the can 7, to which these curved portions are rigidly secured by rivets or otherwise; and I further provide braces 1 1 on each side of the hinge plate at the top and at the bottom, rivets or bolts being passed through these braces and the hinge plate, and also connected to the container 7 to form a rigid hinge member for the can.

A rod 15 is passed through the tubular portion 11 of the hinge plate, and I provide suitable brackets secured to the wall to engage the rod 15 above and below the hinge plate. As shown I provide angle plates 17 and 18, secured to the wall by expansion bolts 19, the angle plates being apertured to receive the rod 15 at the top and bottom of the hinge plate 10 as shown in Fig. 2, a pin 20 through the rod serving to prevent its passing downward. Thus it will be seen that the can 7 with the hinge plate 10 rigidly secured thereto, will swing on this rod 15 as an axis, and these angle plates are secured to the wall 6 so that the can can be supported in front of the window as shown in Fig. 3 convenient for access by a person at the window inside of the building; and the can can be swung from this position to a position against the wall 6 to one side of the window as shown in Fig. 1, and indicated in broken lines in Fig. 3. In order to conveniently swing the can to these two positions from the inside of the window, I provide a spindle 22 passing through the sill 3 of the window, and having an arm 23 fast on its outer end, that is pivoted to a link 24:, whose other end is pivoted to the hinge plate 10 at 2. A handle 25 is secured to the inner end of the spindle 22, by means of which the arm 23 can be swung from the position shown in Fig. 1, in which it rests on a pin 26 in the sill 3, to an opposite position in engagement with a pin 27; and this operation will cause the link 24 to swing the hinge plate and can around in front of the window as indicated in Fig. 3. In each of these two extreme positions in which the arm 23 rests on the pin 26, and the pin 27 respectively, the arm and link will have passed a short distancebeyond a position of alinement, corresponding to a dead center, and this will serve to lock the hinge plate and can in these two positions, as the can from wind pressure or otherwise could not so act on the link and arm 23 as to permit any change of position. And the mere swinging of the handle 25 to bring the arm 23 to engage either of the pins will thus automatically cause the container to be locked in the open position for use, or back against the wall as will be clearly understood.

Having thus described my invention, I claim The combination with a window portion of a building, of a receptacle, a hinge member secured to the receptacle, hinge members secured to the wall and supporting the said hinge member to permit the receptacle to be swung from a position in front of the v window to a position against the wall away from the window, an operating device comprising a shaft supported to turn in the window sill, a handle on the shaft inside of the window, an arm secured on the outer end of the shaft, a link pivotally connecting the arm with the hinge member of the receptacle, and stops for the said arm, whereby upon swinging the handle and arm, the link will shift the receptacle-from a locked position in front of the window with the arm and link on a dead center against one of said stops, to a position away from the window with the arm and link locked on a dead center against the other of said stops.

WILLIAM H. MONUTT.

Witnesses:

CHARLES D. HOOK, CHAS. E. JONES.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

